Skatepark Otro /Koo Jeong-A.

 International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivière Island, Beaumont-du-Lac, France

9,5°

Behind this very simple piece of furniture art craft lies a long and complex process. The chair has drastically changed its characteristics several times along the way.
9,5° started out as an iconic chair. The icon was experimented on repeatedly to explore all aspects of something as simple as a chair, with the purpose of creating an entirely new chair. The ambition was to create an object in the borderland between art and design. Sculptural, yet functional.
The chair is tilted at 9,5 degrees. By tilting the chair and then elevating one end of the seat back to a straight angle, a triangle was created. This actually made the construction stronger and reduced the need for a stabilising cross rod.
In conclusion, it's not always wrong to be wrong. The deconstruction of the original design served a higher purpose.
In 2009, the interior architects behind the Knut Hamsun museum in Hamarøy, designed by Steven Holl, saw the chair in the "Nyttrom" interior magazine and decided to acquire 9,5° as the museum chair.
9,5° is part of Art with function – Design without.

Specifications
Designer/ Rasmus B. Fex
Year/ 2009
Material/ Ash
Product Size/ 45 x 40 x 85 cm
More info/ www.artwithfunctiondesignwithout.com // www.hamsunsenteret.no // www.stevenholl.com

To the beach

Reiulf Ramstad Architekten

Meeting Wendy

Wendy opened last weekend at the MoMA PS1 in New York. HWKN -Hollwich Kushner- are the architects who won this temporary pavillion competition that will last til the end of summer.

hold it

You can’t speed time up, you can’t slow it down and neither can you rewind it. The best you can do is to freeze that second. The Mexican deassemblage artist Damian Ortega creates suspended sculpture, diagrams and manuals brought to life, which expose the inner components of some products. It looks like an instant explosion of these products.

Damian Ortega achieved worldwide attention with his breakout hit “Cosmic Thing” in the 2003 Venice Biennale, in which he reassembled a Volkswagon Bug.

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